Differential D16198

Support installing manpages for multiple or alternate architecture(s).
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Authored by • ian on Jul 9 2018, 3:02 PM.

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rS336548: Support installing manpages for multiple or alternate architecture(s).

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Some section-4 manpages are architecture-specific, and the build process currently generates only the pages for the MACHINE_CPUARCH being built.

man(1) supports a '-m' option to find manpages belonging to an arbitrary architecture other than the MACHINE_[CPU]ARCH, but we have no way to generate and install alternate-arch pages right now.

This changes adds a new make.conf variable, MAN_ARCH, which can be a list of one or more MACHINE_ARCH or MACHINE_CPUARCH values. All arch-specific manpages that exist for the named arches will be installed. If unset, it continues the current behavior of installing just the MACHINE_CPUARCH being built.

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• ian created this revision.Jul 9 2018, 3:02 PM

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Harbormaster completed remote builds in B17939: Diff 45077.Jul 9 2018, 3:02 PM

By popular demand (on irc), support a special MAN_ARCH value of "all" to install all available arches. Also, update the wording of the make.conf entry to use MACHINE and MACHINE_ARCH, to match the terms used in man(1).

Harbormaster completed remote builds in B17941: Diff 45081.Jul 9 2018, 6:01 PM

manu accepted this revision.Jul 20 2018, 9:26 AM

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Jul 20 2018, 9:26 AM

Closed by commit rS336548: Support installing manpages for multiple or alternate architecture(s). (authored by • ian). · Explain WhyJul 20 2018, 2:23 PM

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